As we reported last week, Labour is planning to increase the size of the City by as much as 25% over the next 15 years.
It means dramatic changes across the whole of the area with the draft green belt boundaries being torn up.
Racecourse site on Tadcaster Road that Labour want to build houses on
In the Dringhouses and Woodthorpe Ward the plans include the following developments
• Racecourse stables Tadcaster Road – 2.88 acres with 115 homes to be built
• Wilberforce Homes site Tadcaster Road 2.04 acres with 65 homes#
• Askham bar (old) Park and Ride site Moor Lane 1.57 acres with 50 houses
• Land on Moor Lane opposite Woodthorpe/Acomb Park 17.02 acres with 511 homes planned
In total nearly 23,000 additional homes are planned across the City.
A Council working group is meeting on Monday 22nd April when the proposals will get their first public airing. Click here to access the agenda
Local development sites shaded in orange. Click to enlarge
Ann Reid is coordinating local opposition to the plans.
Ironically Dringhouses 2 Labour Councillors are likely to have the casting votes on whether the plans go ahead. Labour only has 25 seats on the 47 member authority. If local Councillors stand up for the people that they represent then the plans will have to be revised.
[…] 350 residents have already signed the “Save the Green Belt” petition only a week after it was […]
We in woodthorpe all ready get long traffic ques on moorlane morning and night, putting this amount of houses in this area will deverstate this area (including askam bog) there are many brown sites around york but I guess these aren’t as profitable this is another failure of york council not doing there job properly
The local traffic situation is indeed already problematic and this development, if it were to go ahead, will only make matters worse. But it is not City of York Council that is proposing to build homes on this land, it is a private developer. In its draft Local Plan, the council has designated the land as Green Belt.